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Democratic Aid and the Democratization of Recipients

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
We investigate whether democratic aid flows, which are directed toward the democratization of recipients by covering democracy‐related programs and government and civil society activities, affect the future political regime of recipient countries. We introduce a multinomial multivariate logit model and we use 5‐yr averaged data covering the period ...
SARANTIS KALYVITIS, IRENE VLACHAKI
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Making Democratic Theory Democratic

2023
This book addressees a timely and fundamental problematic: the gap between the aims that people attempt to realize democratically and the law and administrative practices that actually result. The chapters explain the realities that administration poses for democratic theory. Topics include the political value of accountability, the antinomic character
Stephen Turner, George Mazur
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Democratizing the Hospital: Deliberative-Democratic Bioethics

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 2002
The increased presence of moral consultants, or bioethicists, within hospitals and clinics in the last two decades has begun to raise questions about their sources of authority and norms of practice. Under pressure from critics in the social sciences, a number of bioethicists have recently raised the ideal of democratic deliberation to defend and ...
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Democratic Systems

2001
Digital signature is a breakthrough of modern cryptographic systems. A (t, n) threshold digital signature allows every set of cardinality t or more (out-of n) co-signers to authenticate a message. In almost all existing threshold digital signatures the threshold parameter t is fixed.
Hossein Ghodosi, Josef Pieprzyk
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Democratic Despotism, Democratic Culture, and the Democratic Ideal

The Monist
Abstract In this paper, I outline Du Bois’s WWI-era theory of democracy, which comprises three parts: first, an historically specific explanation of the racially exclusionist character of the modern struggle for democracy; second, a justification of universal suffrage; and third, an account of democratic culture, the promotion of which ...
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Europe’s Democratic Deficit and Democratic Surplus

2020
The European Union’s founders learned about politics in the late nineteenth century, long before democracy became the touchstone for legitimacy. They relied on the traditional authority of the state to negotiate agreements with other countries. Robert Schuman, Konrad Adenauer and Alcide de Gaspari saw themselves as trustees of the common interests of ...
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Democratizing Money

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
In the Western interpretation of democracy, governments exist in order to manage relations of property, with absence of property ownership leading to exclusion from participation in governance and, in many cases, absence of equal treatment before the law. Democratizing money will therefore ensure equal opportunity to the ownership of property, and thus
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Democratizing Finance or Democratizing Money?

Politics & Society, 2019
This article extends the critique of finance to money itself. It argues that our understanding of money has been distorted by a series of myths about its origin and nature, in particular, the claim that money emerged from the adoption of precious metal coinage in market systems. These myths obscure the social and political history of money and the role
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